Obama wants college to ‘indoctrinate’ — Santorum

President Obama wants America’s young people to go to college in order to “indoctrinate” students and “remake” them in his image, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum argue on the campaign trail in recent days.

“There are good, decent men and women who work hard every day and put their skills to the test that aren’t taught by some liberal college professor,” Santorum told a Tea Party rally Saturday in Troy, Mich.

“That’s why he wants you to go to college. He wants to remake in his image. I want to create jobs so people can remake their child into their image, not his.”

The candidate’s words seem in conflict with Santorum’s 2006 reelection race, in which Santorum said he was “committed to ensuring that every Pennsylvanian has access to higher education,” ABC News reported.

Santorum has talked about higher education, and its alleged influence on young minds, over the past two days. He was on Glenn Beck’s radio show Friday, and alleged that Obama wants to “indoctrinate” students.

“I understand why Barack Obama wants to send every kid to college, because of their indoctrination mills, absolutely,” said Santorum. “The indoctrination that is going on at the university level is a harm to our country.”

The former Pennsylvania senator told Beck, without sourcing his information, that “62 percent of kids who go to college with a faith commitment leave without it.”

At the Americans for Prosperity rally in Michigan, Santorum took up the theme again, saying: ”President Obama wants everybody to go to college. What a snob.”

Obama has worked to lower the cost of Pell Grants, which help millions of students go to college, by removing the role of banks as loan agents. He has appealed for colleges to restrain tuition increases that threaten middle class students’ access to higher education.

In his State of the Union speech, Obama declared: ”Higher education can’t be a luxury: It’s an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford.”